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by fleddr 4y ago
Your point is literally made in the article: "Sometimes the decision-making process itself is pleasurable. Even if all outcomes will be equally rewarding, spending time discussing options with others or privately mulling them over migh
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by fleddr 4y ago
"The tracing of zero’s heritage has been elusive. For a country to be able to claim the number’s origin would provide a sense of ownership and determine a source of great nationalistic pride." As seen in some of the comments below
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by fleddr 4y ago
"Singapore is an authoritarian city" "No we're not, your literature is now BANNED".
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by fleddr 4y ago
I think the follow-up needs some more elaborating. "I won a lot of time back so that I can go back to writing 15 novels" is a little off putting for many. Start simple with usage of your reclaimed time. Put your phone in another r
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by fleddr 4y ago
I think this is a brilliant remark, although it likely will be taken the wrong way. I've personally come to the conclusion that us humans aren't designed to take on the misery of the entire human population, and that we should sto
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by fleddr 4y ago
There's a lot of wiggle room between sane consumption and addiction. And addiction is becoming the norm. I'd add that even if you were to consume no news at all, you'd still get the summary of it one way or another. I'll
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by fleddr 4y ago
I think this doesn't do the intentions of the author much justice. He clearly explained how his addictions destroyed his ability to focus on any task at all, no matter how much value you place on that task. Reading a book or watching a
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by fleddr 4y ago
Fine, but even then, a PS5 costs about 500USD. Considering a lifespan of 5-7 years, that's a pretty small investment for a regular gamer. In return you'll have a nearly endless catalog of games (including from older generations),
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by fleddr 4y ago
False rumor or not, Stadia has very little market fit. It's no solution for budget gamers. You still need to pay for the services, the individual games and need to have an excellent network connection to make it usable. It's not e
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by fleddr 4y ago
Good point, this is what I would also expect. It's also quite telling how in most of these services, old content is very well hidden in the UI and sometimes near impossible to get to.
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by fleddr 4y ago
But still content keeps growing, and income per user won't. Doesn't that mean that at one point you're out of runway?
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by fleddr 4y ago
A large phone makes consuming lots of content quite comfortable, from social media to general reading to watching videos. Which means you'll use it a lot. You'll normalize it and won't even bother to move to a larger screen.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Storage price reductions slowing down or even coming to a halt makes me wonder what this means for "infinite storage" companies. I'm talking services like Facebook, Youtube, that are "free" (ad supported) where on a
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by fleddr 4y ago
The problem with both designers and coders is that they never personally feel the consequences of their choices. That's why each of us should routinely be doing a few hours of customer support for the thing you build. Very humbling and
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by fleddr 4y ago
I wouldn't consider myself an accessibility specialist, but I know a thing or two about it, specifically on how to deploy it strategically in a large organization (Fortune 500). I'd say the lack of accessibility is not really due
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by fleddr 4y ago
Still missing the point. You concerns mean absolutely nothing when the essentials in your society break down.
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by fleddr 4y ago
It's totally graspable. Users are unable/unwilling to spend a penny on social networks, hence ads it is, hence engagement it is. If users would pay a monthly fee at scale, it wouldn't be needed. They'd in fact be happy i
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by fleddr 4y ago
As usual, people making a fool out of themselves by confusing "Facebook is no longer cool" with actual value. Half the adults on this planet use a Meta product DAILY, and they added some 3% to it in an incredibly difficult environ
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by fleddr 4y ago
Fairly cynical comments on this thread, many trying to uphold American values like "free market", "protectionism is bad", "what about the consumer", "not from my tax money". I find those remarks prett
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by fleddr 4y ago
I once took our team from work to a VR center, as none had tried VR before. Circumstances were top notch: Valve, super high-end PC, large rooms, wide selection of games, all possible accessories. We all had fun and that's it. Nobody ev
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by fleddr 4y ago
"When you have both parents working more than 40 hours a week, are you really surprised that they don't have the energy to cook from scratch?" Yes, because cooking costs like zero energy. The physical activity consists of sta
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by fleddr 4y ago
Recently on Twitter a lady was complaining about inflation. She posted a photo of about a week's worth of groceries and its combined new price, as this was what she typically bought every week. The inflation part was instantly forgotte
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by fleddr 4y ago
You can easily understand what it does because you picked an example that is easy to understand :) This discussion often ends up in the extremes: inline everything versus abstract everything. I don't think anybody reasonable would opt
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by fleddr 4y ago
True, the most progressive people (largely just optical) work for the largest neoliberal monopolists.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Same for when you read about two large companies merging, pending regulatory approval. My immediate thought: it's going be allowed. Regulator after 6 months: it's allowed.
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by fleddr 4y ago
"The text of the Sherman Act bars ‘monopolization,’ so to write that one is trying to build firms that can ‘monopolize’ is, well, remarkable." Perhaps remarkable to say it out loud, but other than that not remarkable at all and to
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by fleddr 4y ago
I would go along with the general idea that human beings in general are good, it's a conclusion one easily picks up when having traveled. Most of us want peace, health and reasonable wealth. Anyway, social media is an entirely differen
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by fleddr 4y ago
The book analogy you use isn't very accurate. Even if you merge chapters and paragraphs like that, you still read it sequentially. Just in a less comfortable way. Which is not at all like a modern codebase that is modular, abstracted,
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by fleddr 4y ago
The current inflation isn't caused by wages, it's caused by energy prices.
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by fleddr 4y ago
True, the relation between wages and inflation is complicated. A lot of companies in Germany (same in the Netherlands) are exporters. The products they produce are not consumed by local consumers, hence higher wages do not increase local in

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